(January 4, 2015 at 5:22 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:And are these men not genetically predisposed toward war, toward the need to defeat others, to conquer? You don't have to identify a rape-specific gene to see that the strong emotional motivations of the male human organism are going to lead to behaviors which are counterproductive to modern societies, and the happiness of the members of those societies.(January 4, 2015 at 12:15 am)bennyboy Wrote: If no men in a culture had the predisposed inclination toward rape, then there would not have been any mechanism by which rape could become part of any culture.
You're begging the question here. I can think of several other means by which rape becomes a cultural artifact. One is war; rape is used as a weapon to defeat the home front of a conquered enemy, and then those soldiers return home. Another is simple gender politics: because men literally have muscle, they could sometimes physically assume power in a society, and force unwilling women to have sex in order to secure resources or shelter.
Quote:I could go on, but you get my point: you're assuming what you want to demonstrate.
The fallacy pointed out above renders this conclusion unsupported. You need to demonstrate a positive link between genetics and rape behavior in order to support your claim.
http://everything2.com/title/Rape+and+ev...psychology
The second poster in this article has already done some research. After about 2 more minutes with google, I think there's enough research out there to justify starting a science thread about the issue of genetics and rape. I'm not sure there's really much more to be said in the context of atheism and anti-feminism that hasn't been said yet?
